Pancho Villa - in Films, Video, and Television

In Films, Video, and Television

Villa appeared as himself in films in 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1916:

  • Life of Villa (1912)
  • With General Pancho Villa in Mexico (1913, unconfirmed)
  • The Life of General Villa (1914)
  • Following the Flag in Mexico (1916)

The 1934 biopic Viva Villa! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actors that have portrayed Villa include:

  • Raoul Walsh (1912, 1914) The Life of General Villa
  • Wallace Beery (1917) Patria
  • George Humbert (1918) Why America Will Win
  • Wallace Beery (1934) Viva Villa!, with Phillip Cooper (Pancho Villa as a boy)
  • Juan F. Triana (1935) El Tesoro de Pancho Villa
  • Domingo Soler (1936) Vámonos con Pancho Villa
  • Maurice Black (1937) Under Strange Flags
  • Leo Carrillo (1949) Pancho Villa Returns
  • Pedro Armendáriz (1950, 1957, 1960 twice)
  • Alan Reed (1952) Viva Zapata!
  • Victor Alcocer (1955) El siete leguas
  • Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. (1958) Villa!!
  • Rafael Campos (1959) Have Gun Will Travel, Season 3-Episode 6 (Pancho)
  • José Elías Moreno (1967) El Centauro Pancho Villa
  • Ricardo Palacios (1967) Los Siete de Pancho Villa
  • Yul Brynner (1968) Villa Rides
  • Telly Savalas (1971) Pancho Villa!
  • Heraclio Zepeda (1973) Reed, México insurgente
  • Antonio Aguilar (1974) La Muerte de Pancho Villa
  • Héctor Elizondo (1976) Wanted: The Sundance Woman (TV)
  • Freddy Fender (1977) She Came to the Valley
  • José Villamor (1980) Viva México (TV)
  • Jorge Reynoso (1982) Red Bells: Mexico in Flames
  • Gaithor Brownne (1985) Blood Church
  • Guillermo Gil (1987) Senda de Gloria (TV series)
  • Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. (1989) Old Gringo
  • Mike Moroff (1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal, "Mexico, March 1916", The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure
  • Antonio Aguilar (1993) La sangre de un valiente
  • Alonso Echánove (1993) By Our Own Correspondent
  • Jesús Ochoa (1995) Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda
  • Carlos Roberto Majul (1999) Ah! Silenciosa
  • Peter Butler (2000) From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
  • Antonio Banderas (2003) And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • Alejandro Calva (2009) Chico Grande
  • Deadliest Warrior, Spike TV's hit show, featured Pancho Villa in a match-up against Chief Crazy Horse.
  • Wild Roses, Tender Roses (2012), based on the novel The Friends of Pancho Villa, by James Carlos Blake

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